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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.4 has been released on October 4, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. New Plugin Bondpack is a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Orient orient aligns the principal components of the atoms in the selection with the XYZ axes. The function is similar to the orient command in X-PLOR. USAGE orient object-or-selection [, state] orient (selection) PYMOL API cmd.orient( string object-or-selection [, state = 0] ) NOTES state = 0 (default) use all coordinate states state = -1 use only coordinates for the current state state > 0 use coordinates for a specific state EXAMPLES For models with NCS symmetry, orient will align the model with the symmetry axis centered along the viewport's z axis. For example, fetch 1hiw, async=0 as cartoon remove (!chain A,B,C) orient util.cbc will produce the first image below. However, if there is a larger symmetry, e.g. two trimers, this will not work. In the above example, leaving out remove (!chain A,B,C) from the script results in the second image below. <gallery> Image:1hiw orient.png|One trimer from 1hiw after "orient" ..→

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